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"With the Pl@ntNet app, identify one plant from a picture, and be part of a citizen science project on plant biodiversity"

An American based supplier of custom designed processing equipment including plant protein extruders.

interesting that parrot picked this up, used to be a kit item, not shown on their website so this annoying video is the only option to link to

Machines talking to machines No doubt that the Olympics will have a profound effect in shaping London's future. By the time the Games begin, for instance, it will have Europe's largest free WiFi zone, with the city's iconic red phone booths converted, fittingly, into hotspots. But another opportunity London landed earlier this month could have just as much impact, perhaps more. A company called Living PlanIt announced that it will begin testing its "Urban Operating System" in the Greenwich section of the city. What does that mean? Put simply, London would have its own operating system, much as your PC runs on Windows or your Mac runs on Apple's IOS. This ties into the latest hot buzz phrase, "the internet of things," which describes a world where machines talk to other machines. No human interaction required. So, for a city, this means sensors in buildings would connect to sensors in water treatment plants which would connect to sensors in stoplights. It would be one gigantic, computerized urban nervous system, which a lot of experts think is the only way cities can survive a future when they'll contain more than two out of every three people on Earth. Based on what sensors reveal about the location and movement of humans in a section of a city, for instance, buildings will automatically adjust their temperatures, streetlights will dim or brighten, water flow will increase or slow. Or, in the event of a disaster, emergency services would have real-time access to traffic data, trauma unit availability, building blueprints. And soon enough, our smart phones will be able to tap in to the Urban OS. So will our household appliances. This is not some 21st century analogue of the personal jet pack. The Urban OS is the driving force behind a smart city being built from the ground up in northern Portugal. Construction is scheduled to be completed in three years; eventually it will have about 150,000 residents. It will also have more than 100 million sen

Been looking at this project too...seems like a good way that we might be able to get a better handle on how our jasmine rice grows over the 5-6 month growing season, how the plant performs in different soil types, the impact of increasingly variable rainfall on plant health, and perhaps being in a better position to be able to more accurately forecast yields and eventual seed quality.

Climote gives precision temperature, humidity and light level information. Growmote tells you when your plants need watering, how much light they're getting and if frost is coming. Thermote sends you temperature information of an object it's pointed at: water, food, your pet gekco, or even your body!

"The City Nature Challenge (CNC) is a bioblitz-style competition where cities worldwide compete to find and document urban plants and wildlife. Its purpose is to promote citizen science while enhancing biodiversity awareness. In 2018, the Klang Valley is the first Malaysian and Southeast Asian urban metro area to participate "

another interesting application of sensors, but the price point is pretty much a non starter

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